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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Drawing our own pattern of front... New Girl´s Sew Along!

And now it's time to draw our front pattern, if you look closely at the photos of the previous post corresponding to the tutorial to draw the pattern of the back, the center of our pattern was located on the left side and all alterations to draw armhole and side were on the right side ... Now let's do it inversely, so this pattern of front, we will leave the center of the pattern on the right side and alterations for armhole and on the left side, so it will be easier to work with afterwards alterations necessary for adjusting darts and others ... trust me ...

We start by drawing a rectangle again, this time it will be tall,our front waist length, mine are 46 centimeters. Wide, we need a quarter of our bust measurement + 2 centimeters, that is, if a quarter of my bust measurement is 24.5 centimeters, I'm going to add two centimeters to this measurement and need 26 centimeters to the overall width of this rectangle, when this rectangle exterior is finished, we will measure the half of width of our back where the red lines shown, mine is 19 centimeters and draw a vertical line as shown in the photo.

Now let's measure from the top of this pattern downwards with our measure of Back waist length, where the red lines indicate, then we draw a horizontal line in this measure as the photo shows.Ahora vamos a medir desde la parte alta de este patrón hacia abajo con nuestra medida de largo de talle de espalda, donde señalan las lineas rojas, entonces trazamos una linea horizontal en esta medida como muestra la foto.

The next step is to draw the neckline, for this we go to the upper corner of the center of the pattern and we will measure from the vertex to the opposite side (the yellow line) one-sixth of our neck contour, mine is 6.8 centimeters .... and from that corner down (the red line) one-sixth of our neck contour + 2 centimeters, mine is 8.6 +2 = 8.8 cm ... I have rounded to 9 centimeters. We connect these two marks with a diagonal line as shown in the photo.

So far so good? We´re very near the end ... Now we measure from the horizontal line inside the box is up (look at the red line, from where starts to up) this measure will be our high shoulder, mine is 40 centimeters. At this point we draw a straight line to the neckline and we have drawn the shoulder from our pattern, almost finished ...

Solely we need to draw a curve that starts at the point of the shoulder, playing the last mark we have made of 1.5 cm and comes to die almost at the height of the side, look carefully you as it´s depicted in the picture, this will be our armhole ...

And voila! Reviewing it with a blue pencil around the outline of the pattern we have already finished it ... you tell me that it has been easier! Now we have a basic pattern of back and front with our own measures tailored to our body, we need only adjust the darts will be the next post and we can start with our dress .... and whatever else we want, because having this pattern in our power and some alterations, we have the ability to bring into our closet any garment ... just need a little bit of enthusiasm ... and I have a lot of it to share with all of you who are united in this little adventure! And of course to who want to join too, you´ll be welcome!

Hi Rosy, if I don't really feel like drafting and I have the Burda style pattern you talked about in a previous post. Would you be nice enough to tell me what you did with the sleeves? Did you draft them or did you take them on another pattern and they fit? Thanks.